Showing posts with label 1895 letter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1895 letter. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Started it all...

Tattletales!





In 1899, four years and probably some attorney's fees later, Newark, NJ's Feigenspan Beer would lose a trademark lawsuit by Bass Ratcliff & Gretton brewer of the famous Bass Ale labeled with a red triangle (and said to be the first trademark),  over this label with a "similar color and outline as to be mistaken for each other".